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After members of California's Rawesome Food Club were thrown in jail, raw-food proponents, many of them mothers, are uniting in their defense.
More people living in the suburbs are poor and without cars. But autocentric street design means you risk your life getting around any other way.
Riding a wave of anti-nuclear sentiment in the wake of Japan's Fukushima disaster, the German government has decided to phase...
Obama's former green jobs czar sets the record straight after The New York Times cherry-picked his quotes to support the proposition that the clean energy economy has failed.
The anti-gay-marriage pledge being pushed by a right-wing Iowa group has made headlines, but we haven't heard much about its call for "robust childbearing."
Civil disobedience doesn't accomplish anything if it's boring. To make a real impact, direct action must involve the crucial elements of surprise and delight -- just like Tim DeChristopher's stunt.
It's very hard to make change in the food system in an environment where wages are flat and couples (read: women) are working more hours.
A "mythbusting" Scientific American blogger took on organic agriculture recently, but she got much of the story wrong. Grist sets her straight.
Bill McKibben published a must-read op-ed in The Washington Post last month about the connection between climate change and recent...